Iris Chang's new book to be published by Viking Penguin

Iris Chang has completed her long-awaited narrative history of Chinese Americans, to be
published by Viking Penguin in May 2003. This will be the first Chinese American history written
for a general audience that includes the story of the newest wave of immigrants, who arrived after
normalization with the People's Republic of China. The book covers 150 years of Chinese
contributions to America, drawn from interviews, archival research and synthesis of the scholarly
literature. Chang is best known for The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World
War II (1997. She wrote her first book, Thread of the Silkworm (1995) on Tsien Hsue-Shen
(Qian Xuesen), the Chinese American rocket scientist who was accused of being a Communist
and deported to China during the McCarthy era. Ms. Chang was awarded an Honorary Doctorate
of Humane Letters by The College of Wooster on May 13, 2002. (Source: Committee Bridges,
Fall 2002).